Unfortunately we're hitting some scaling issues, we're exploring some ways around them, but even in "clean slate" tests we're struggling to exceed ~10k agents i

Unfortunately we're hitting some scaling issues, we're exploring some ways around them, but even in "clean slate" tests we're struggling to exceed ~10k agents in motion without framerates starting to dwindle. We've also very quickly learned that multi-threaded development is, or can be, quite difficult & tedious. Things can go wrong in even more ways than we'd have imagined, though it has been a fun challenge too. Right now, players with higher-end computers are reporting that they're able to push ~3k or so "pax" (passenger agents) before framerates start to get choppy. When we receive save game files with bugs to look into, and we load them up and see 4-5k+ pax, we cringe a bit (and it's even worse w/ all our logging on, etc). ;-) As far as details go, the algorithm for passenger needs/desires/selection is pretty neat -- it uses "delta need scoring", it's quite a robust approach & also a decently-scalable system.